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You persuade people with passion, so you've got to have a product or service you feel emotionally charged about. Then you can tell stories about it that will inspire others.
Anita Roddick
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Anita Roddick
Age: 64 †
Born: 1942
Born: October 23
Died: 2007
Died: September 10
Businessperson
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Feminist
Organizational Founder
Littlehampton
West Sussex
Dame Anita Lucia Roddick
Dame Anita Roddick
Anita Lucia Roddick
Anita Lucia Perella
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If you can shape your business life or your working life, you can just look at it as another extension - you just fulfill all your values as a human being in the work place. If you are an activist, you bring the activism of your life into your business, or if you love creative art, you can bring that in.
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If I had to name a driving force in my life, I would name PASSION every time
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You've got to be hungry - for ideas, to make things happen and to see your vision made into reality
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Women want to be free to choose from the same range of options that men take for granted. In our quest for equal pay, equal access to education and opportunities, we have made great strides. But until women can move freely and think freely in their homes, on the streets, in the workplace without the fear of violence, there can be no real freedom.
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It's about creating a product or service so good that people will pay for it. Now 30 years on The Body Shop is a multi local business with over 2.045 stores serving over 77 million customers in 51 different markets in 25 different languages and across 12 time zones. And I haven't a clue how we got here!
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There are only two ways of making money: the hard way and the very hard way!
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To me the desire to create and to have control over your own life, irrespective of the politics of the time or social structures, has always been a part of the human spirit. What I did not fully realize was that work could open the doors to my heart.
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I don't want to be defined by being the founder of the Body Shop, and I don't want to be defined as a woman suffering from Hepatitis C. There's more to my life than that.
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Tap the energy of the anarchist and he will be the one to push your company ahead.
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There are 3 billion women in the world who don't look like supermodels and only 8 that do.
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Entrepreneurs are outsiders by nature - outsiders with a work ethic.
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The beauty and the fashion industry want to control you. And the way that they do it through your body. So once they control your body they control your purse and the products you buy. Its a fantastic strategy and it's working.
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At The Body Shop we had always been measured by how many jobs we had created, and I got a major award from the Queen on that.
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I have no interest in being the biggest, the most profitable or the largest retailer. I just want The Body Shop to be the best, most breathlessly exciting company - and one that changes the way business is carried out.
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The key to handling problems and conflict within an organization is to keep the channels of communication wide open.
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Be courageous. It's one of the only places left uncrowded.
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We were most creative when our back was against the wall.
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I'd have opened a bloody library if I'd wanted to be quiet.
Anita Roddick
A Sense Of Outrage Is Essential For The Entrepreneurial Spirit. I Think Discontentment Drives You To Want To Do Something About It. And My Outrage Came Very Early On.
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The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies.
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